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Ivan Silva stood in for Alex Hofmann at Assen on the D'antin Ducati, Who he's riding for today is anyone's guess!

Snowy wrote:Ivan Silva stood in for Alex Hofmann at Assen on the D'antin Ducati, Who he's riding for today is anyone's guess!

Thankyou Snowy

Thought he might have been related to Long John.

Hayden
Rossi
Melandri

jacfan wrote:Hayden
Rossi
Melandri

Malandri will not get close enough to Stoner to know if Casey farted.

Julian Mayo wrote:Thanks TK
Who is Silva ?

Yes, Snowy is correct, Silva is riding in the place of Alex Hofmann, as Hofmann is filling in for Sete Gibernau this weekend....

Combined times of 1st & 2nd free practice sessions....


1 - Valentino Rossi ~ 1'57.871
2 - Randy de Puniet ~ 1'58.028
3 - Loris Capirossi ~ 1'58.470
4 - Colin Edwards ~ 1'58.851
5 - Kenny Roberts Jr ~ 1'59.119
6 - Shinya Nakano ~ 1'59.240
7 - Carlos Checa ~ 1'59.254
8 - Dani Pedrosa ~ 1'59.258
9 - Marco Melandri ~ 1'59.313
10 - Nicky Hayden ~ 1'59.387 *
11 - John Hopkins ~ 1'59.406
12 - Casey Stoner ~ 1'59.607
13 - Toni Elias ~ 1'59.893 *
14 - Makoto Tamada ~ 1'59.919
15 - Alex Hofmann ~ 2'0.507
16 - Chris Vermeulen ~ 2'1.074 *
17 - James Ellison ~ 2'2.426
18 - Jose Luis Cardoso ~ 2'2.730
19 - Ivan Silva ~ 2'04.244


* time set in FP1

Rossi very much quicker than anybody else until Randy did a last lap on what I presumed to be qualies. 1.5 secs faster than Loris that is ridicerus! Has that happened at all this season? I think not!

Snowy wrote:Rossi very much quicker than anybody else until Randy did a last lap on what I presumed to be qualies. 1.5 secs faster than Loris that is ridicerus! Has that happened at all this season? I think not!

Rossi was also on the qualifying tyre in the third session....

Team manager of Repsol Honda, Makoto Tanaka has warned not to read too much into the timesheets since a number of riders chose to fit qualifying tyres one day early - distorting the picture.

The afternoon session was a bit mysterious because it seems like some riders used qualifying tyres and this means it's difficult to read too much into the timesheets

Those confirmed to have used qualifying tyres are fastest man, Valentino Rossi and second fastest Randy de Puniet, while third placed Loris Capirossi claims he was the fastest rider on race tyres. Nevertheless, qualifying tyres don't entirely account for Hayden's position since the championship leader - fastest of all in morning first practice - was one of only three riders that didn't improve in the afternoon....

Pedrosa was fifth fastest in first free practice but slipped to eighth place overall after FP2, despite finding a further 0.417secs

Free Practice 3:


1 - Loris Capirossi ~ 1'57.404
2 - Marco Melandri ~ 1'57.435
3 - Valentino Rossi ~ 1'57.510
4 - Dani Pedrosa ~ 1'57.739
5 - Colin Edwards ~ 1'57.947
6 - Nicky Hayden ~ 157.970
7 - Shinya Nakano ~ 158.364
8 - Casey Stoner ~ 158.409
9 - John Hopkins ~ 158.517
10 - Kenny Roberts jr ~ 1'58.542
11 - Toni Elias ~ 1'58.675
12 - Randy de Puniet ~ 1'58.957
13 - Makoto Tamada ~ 1'58.958
14 - Chris Vermeulen ~ 1'59.556
15 - Carlos Checa ~ 1'59.830
16 - Alex Hofmann ~ 2'00.137
17 - James Ellison ~ 2'0.234
18 - Jose Luis Cardoso ~2'01.798
19 -Ivan Silva ~2'02.745

<T-K> wrote:

Snowy wrote:Rossi very much quicker than anybody else until Randy did a last lap on what I presumed to be qualies. 1.5 secs faster than Loris that is ridicerus! Has that happened at all this season? I think not!

Rossi was also on the qualifying tyre in the third session....

WHA

Stoners team doesn't have a " special" qualy tire

Qualifying Times:



1 - Valentino Rossi ~ 1'56.191
2 - Loris Capirossi ~ 1'56.441
3 - Kenny Roberts Jr ~ 1' 56.603

4 - Nicky Hayden ~ 1'56.694
5 - Shinya Nakano ~ 1'56.770
6 - Toni Elias ~ 1'56.875

7 - John Hopkins ~ 1'56.913
8 - Colin Edwards ~ 1'56.967
9 - Dani Pedrosa ~ 1'57.139

10 - Randy de Puniet ~ 1'57.185
11 - Marco Melandri ~ 1'57.221
12 - Casey Stoner ~ 1'57.679

13 - Chris Vermeulen ~ 1'57.894
14 - Alex Hofmann ~ 1'57.906
15 - Makoto Tamada ~ 1'58.239

16 - James Ellison ~ 1'59.011
17 - Carlos Checa ~ 1'59.289
18 - Jose Luis Cardoso ~ 2'00.971

19 - Ivan Silva ~ 2'01.433

I thought Chris would be in the top 8

Is Vermeulen a typically Australian name?